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January 12, 2013

Myths Associated with Schizophrenia

People
wrongly associate the symptoms of schizophrenia with split or multiple personalities
(like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), antisocial behavior (similar to what we see in
serial killers), and developmental disabilities. Others believe that
schizophrenia is a character defect and that the individual could behave normally
if he really wanted to.

Here are a few of
the most common misconceptions about schizophrenia:

Schizophrenia is the same as a split or multiple
personality.Schizophrenia is not
the same as multiple personality,
which is an exceedingly rare, totally different disorder that is now more
commonly called a dissociative identity disorder. (Under stress, people with this disorder often assume different
identities, each with different names, voices, characteristics, and personal
histories.)

People with schizophrenia are violent.People
with schizophrenia are more likely to be victims rather than perpetrators of
crimes. Many people believe that most people with schizophrenia have a
propensity for violence, but the reality is that most people with schizophrenia
don’t commit violent crimes, and most violent criminals don’t have schizophrenia.
For example, serial killers (people who commit three or more subsequent murders)
usually aren’t psychotic (out of touch with reality); they’re likely to be diagnosed
with an antisocial personality disorder (a disorder in which people disregard commonly accepted
social rules and norms, display impulsive behavior, and are indifferent to the
rights and feelings of others).

However, people with untreated schizophrenia, who refuse to
take medication and whose thinking is out of touch with reality are at increased
risk of aggressive behavior and self-neglect. The risk of violence also
increases if someone with schizophrenia is actively abusing alcohol or illicit
drugs. For better or worse, the aggressive behavior is usually directed toward
family or friends rather than toward strangers.

Poor parenting causes schizophrenia.For
many years, clinicians were taught and actually believed that schizophrenia was
caused by parents who were either too permissive or too controlling. The term schizophrenogenic mother was once used to describe such parents — the blame usually
fell heavily on mothers because they tended to spend the most time with their
offspring.

Another outdated theory is the double-bind theory, which suggested that schizophrenia is due to inconsistent parenting,
with conflicting messages. These ideas were not based on controlled studies,
and these theories no longer have credibility today. Schizophrenia is a
no-fault disorder of the brain.

People with schizophrenia are mentally retarded.Some
people think that schizophrenia is synonymous with mental retardation (now
called developmental disabilities). No. Like the general public, people with schizophrenia
have a wide range of intellectual abilities. They may appear less
intelligent because of the impaired social skills, odd behaviors, and cognitive
impairments that are characteristic of schizophrenia.

However, they’re not lacking in intelligence, and
schizophrenia is distinct from developmental
disabilities (physical and mental deficits that are
chronic and severe and that generally begin in childhood).

Schizophrenia
is a defect of character. Negative
symptoms of schizophrenia give people the mistaken impression that those with
the disorder are lazy and could act “normally” if they wanted to. This idea is
no more realistic than suggesting that someone could prevent his epileptic seizures
if he really wanted to or that someone could “decide” not to have cancer if he
ate the right foods. What often appears as character defects are symptoms of
schizophrenia. When the negative symptoms of schizophrenia are persistent and
primarily caused by schizophrenia, they’re referred to as deficit syndrome.

There’s no hope for people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Sixty years ago when people were diagnosed with
schizophrenia, they were either kept at home behind closed doors by embarrassed
and forlorn families who saw no other alternative, or consigned to long-term
stays in distant state hospitals for care that was largely custodial (they
weren’t treated — they were just taken care of). Other than using highly
sedating drugs, doctors had few tools available to them to relieve the
agitation and torment of their patients or to help restore their functioning.

In contrast to how things were in the
past, schizophrenia is now considered highly treatable. Several generations of
new medications and the emergence of new forms of therapies have enabled
doctors to treat the symptoms of the large majority of patients with
schizophrenia enabling them to live meaningful, productive lives in their
communities.

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